Valerie Spaulding~Allyn~Belfair~Hood Canal & Mason County~WA~Real Estate~

LakeLand Village~Allyn~Homes for Sale and Sold~September 09 Real Estate Happenings~

Fall is here both on the calendar and in the air!

As well as the upcoming end to the First Time Home-buyer tax Credit ...

In order to be eligible for the credit, you must close the home by November 30, 2009! That does not leave much time if you think about it, because a normal home sale transaction (lender dependent as well as various other factors), takes on the average 30-45 days to close.

And if what I think will happen, happens - we will see an increase in the number of buyers writing offers on homes for sale in LakeLand Village as well as the surrounding areas;

which also means the lenders will be busy -which could in turn delay your transaction! So the sooner the better!

Don't delay! Get on out there and find the right home for sale for you!

Okay -let's take a look at LakeLand Village Homes for Sale and Sold for the Month of September 2009

~ What's been happening in the LakeLand Village real estate market? As the seasons change will the real estate market change? Well it seems as though there was a slight stall in offers being written for the month of September... (Hmmm where'd everyone go??)

There are currently 29 homes for sale in LakeLand Village.

• • The average asking price is $314,175;
  • The average dollar per square foot is $148.64;
  • The average days on market is 213

There are two contingent homes for sale (the buyer has to sell their current home first in order to complete the purchase of the new home); it's been a long time since we have seen contingent sales popping up as well. The two contingent sales are at

• • an average asking price of $379,500;
  • average dollars per square foot of $114.84;
  • and an average of days on the market of 332.

There are two pending homes for sale in LakeLand Village

• • The average price is $224,900;
  • The average dollars per square foot is $125.65;
  • and the average days on market is 370.

There was only one written offer that was accepted during the month of September which happened to be one of the contingent homes for sale noted above.

Sold properties in LakeLand Village for the month of September were not extremely impressive with only two clocking in for sold properties.

• • The average sold price was $230,000;
  • with an average of dollars per square foot of $117.15;
  • and an average of days on the market of 230.

There's still plenty of great homes for sale in LakeLand Village as well as the surrounding areas to choose from! There's something out there for just about everyone.

For those of you who do not know about LakeLand Village, it is a small residential golf course and lake community nestled above the small town of Allyn, WA (check this LakeLand Link out). Allyn, WA as well as LakeLand Village offers many amenities as does the surrounding area of Southern Puget Sound and Hood Canal.

Previous Month's Market Reports for Homes for Sale and Sold in LakeLand Village, Allyn, WA:

• August 2009
• July 2009
• June 2009 -
• May 2009
• April 2009
• March 2009
• February 2009
• January 2009
• 2008 LakeLand Village Market Report

Now is a great time to get the most home for your dollar in LakeLand Village as well as other areas. Or if you are thinking about "moving up" in a home, this is the better time as well.

Whether you are buying or selling a home, don't put your goals off without talking to a local real estate expert with knowledge of homes for sale in LakeLand Village regarding your individual real estate goals.

~~Valerie~~

If you would like more information on buying or selling real estate in LakeLand Village, Allyn & Belfair, just give me a call, drop me a line or stop on in! I Build relationships for life. YOUR SUCCESS IS MY SUCCESS!

~~Valerie~~ Lakeland Village, Belfair & Allyn Real Esate Specialist~~

Windermere Peninsula Properties

My email: vlsallyn@windermere.com

My website: www.valspaulding.mywindermere.com

My blog : www.BelfairWARealEstate.com

Okay so I called it Silent Sunday and the Sunday theme was supposed to be speechless maybe not silent?? There was no way this Sunday was silent that's for sure! SPeechless? YOU BET!!!

We rode into Anacortes about 8:30AM to get our usual parking spot in front of the Post Office. this year there were more Motorcycles already in town than the 3 previous years that we've been...

It was a picture perfect day too....

We wandered down to have breakfast at the cafe only to find a waiting line. Again an unusual thing! This was starting to look like there was going to be a busy day with a lot of motorocylces! event...

Back to the bikes to watch them all roll in...... and boy did they roll in....

It was hard to get pictures - there were so many bikes coming into town... I wasn't quite tall enough!

This was actually the calm before the storm. By 10:30AM, Main Street was tail light to tail light of bikes rolling in looking for a parking spot.

The variety of bikes, the styles, the variety of people -everything is a sound, taste,smell, see, hear sensory alert around each and every corner...

Specialty bikes like the "school teachers" GoldWings that we see there each year.....

How about this One??? "YEEHA!" is the license plate!

If it could be thought of it was probably there ! As well as a lot of beautiful bikes!

Okay so it wasn't very silent! But it was sure impressive!!!

Anacortes, WA 2009 Oyster Run

Oyster Run 2009 in Anacortes, WA! The entire main street blocked off with 4 rows of bikes parked the entire length.I counted 100 bikes coming in every ten minutes. And just when you think you've got the coolest bike...

I don't know what kind of a bike you would call it, but it was suuuuuurree pretty! Not so sure it's for a long road trip! What do you think?

An incredible day with incredible bikes, incredible weather, and incredible people!......

So how was YOUR Monday? I don't care to have a repeat of today thank you.....

It all started out fairly normal. Monday's though are typically always little more hectic and this one turned from hectic to- maybe not hell- but pretty gosh darned close. I generally can pull it all together and get it settled down and done.... but today it was JUST NOT going to happen.

I had my scheduled planned as usual. It was going to be a tight one today between phone calls, paperwork to catch up on, errands to run, appointments to be met, signs to put up, pictures to be taken.... I think you get it. And that's just for my business, throw in home, husband, children and AAAARRRRGHHHHHHHH!!! CALGON PLEASE TAKE ME AWAY!!! And oh wait - was there time in there for me?? Not typically on a Monday.

But Calgon did not show.So I hustled and bustled and plugged along and as the day went on, the appointments got further and further behind, I was late meeting the sign guy so he left. I drove right by the house I was bringing flyers to for the flyer box. My camera batteries died after two pictures and someone took my extra batteries out of my bag (grandkids have moved in with us...);My car was turning over extremely sllllooowwww when starting -(how many more cranks will I get out of it?);the phone calls were running longer than planned which meant I had voicemail after voicemail (DID EVERYONE WAIT UNTIL MONDAY TO CALL??).... and so it went on....

I finally caught up with the sign guy, I decided the pictures were going to have to wait until tomorrow, I went back to the office in the hopes of finishing the paperwork and returning voicemails...

My phone rings. It is my daughter who is graciously cooking dinner tonight (It is her and her two children that have just moved back in with us) and she tells me that the barbecue is on fire....I take a deep breathe and ask her to explain.....

"the whole thing is on fire," She is not panicked but anxious I can tell (I am trying not to panic as our home burnt down in 2004). Is she exaggerating or should she be talking to the fire dept instead of me?.

We quickly determine that yes, grease has caught on fire and yes, the barbecue inside is ablazing but she has shut the propane off, hose standing nearby to protect my deck and house and it quickly burns out.... Whhheewwww. She laughs "dinners done!" Oh yes my children are quite humorous at times.

Okay back to work-but my mind would not concentrate with still so much to do and all of the interruptions... I finally said "that's it. I'm done. I can do no more today." Packed up my things and headed for the car...

I turn the key and NOTHING.... I should have known that I was not going to get one more crank out of the car today - I mean seriously- this was the puuuuurrrfecttt day for it to head south....~~~DEEEEEEEP SIIIIGH~~~

My husband is nowhere to be found. And now all of a sudden when I TRY to call someone - no one wants to talk to me and all my calls go to voicemail.....

After an hour waiting for SOMEONE -ANYONE- to answer their phone, my husband shows up to the rescue- Very apologetic that he did not hear his cellphone (uh huh).... and rescues me... THANK YOU!!!!

So How was YOUR Monday?? Because I don't care to have a repeat of THIS Monday anytime soon! If for some reason I did not get to talk to you today, or you left me a message - I'll be back tomorrow and pick up where I left off! But for now -

oooooh Yes - I do believe it is wine and hottub time! and I am counting on a terrific Tuesday!

HERE WE COME GLACIER NATIONAL PARK! DAY THREE!

Okay so I have to digress for a minute and tell you something first. When researching Glacier Nat'l Park for our trip - I was real leary about the roads and their condition near there at the end of June. And there's one road in particular that looked to be the most popular, but also the most scary.... GOING-TO-THE-SUN-ROAD.

Scary you say? Yeah scary. Like in winding, twisting, narrow, no guard rails, cliff hanging kinda scary- you know? And we were going to be on our motorcycles so I wanted to know ALL about this road before I got anywhere near it (this is the part where my husband would call me a sissy)! Go ahead read the link above....I'll wait.

So I did investigate and based on the info on their website it seemed that it would be better to come in from the east side of Glacier on it, than the West Side....That way I would be riding against the mountain not hanging in the outside lane cliffside. Okay remember that.

Here's the other thing for the most part, I am the navigator calling the shots as to which roads we're taking (eheheheheh - if only they KNEW)! So when I said we were going in on the East side - well we were going in on the East side.

Right- up- until -the part where my husband looked at the map and saw how much CLOSER the west side was!

See my theory was we'd come in from the east and since this is our turn around point, well we want to come out on the west anyway instead of backtracking right? Suuuuurrre! NOT Happening. They were both insisting on the west side and the razzing starts - "so you wanna ride with the big dogs or not? Oh that's right- you're just a 'baby biker'" and so on.... (uggghhh they're killing me here!) Nothing like the old confidence booster huh?

And so our trip goes....

If you'd like to read the previous blogs about how we got this far....

Here's the links: Going-to-the-Sun Road Part 2 Going-to-the-Sun Road Part I

See you on the road!

Valerie